Automotive AI Insights

The race is on. Literally! In the world of AI (artificial intelligence) there are a lot of exciting companies making their mark in a pretty impressive way in the automotive industry. Some of these disruptive startups are truly giving us all a glimpse of where the AI market is headed.

Ford and its Ford City Insights program, which uses its AI and data from traffic cameras, parking garages, and other sources to share mobility-related information is a perfect example. This AI-powered database is able to predict where collisions are more likely to happen or where microtransit solutions will be most valuable within city limits.

The company piloted its platform in Ann Arbor, Mich., and it’s expanding the use of the City Insights platform toolset to six more cities. Three of the six new cities are Austin, Indianapolis, and Detroit, and reports suggest the other three will be Miami, Pittsburgh, and Grand Rapids. By leveraging parking, transit, traffic, safety, and census data, Ford says the platform allows city planners to visualize their entire mobility ecosystem.

This helps them explore various solutions before implementing them in the real world. One of Ann Arbor’s goals during the pilot was to evaluate its existing parking infrastructure. People were saying parking is a problem, and the city wanted to know: do we have enough spaces? What’s the nature of the problem, exactly? That way, they can go about fixing the problem.

Thanks to the data-derived insights from the pilot, the city determined it actually does have enough parking. It just needs to invest in solutions that will help direct people to those open spots.

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